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Newspaper post YOUR FIRST READ AND CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT FREE! VIDA Magazine WITH MALTATODAY FULL SURVEY PGS 12-15 2 maltatoday today today SUNDAY • 5 AUGUST 2018 • ISSUE 978 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY Weed relief If pharmacies are dispensing cannabis, is it any different from that found on the street? PAGE 6 Magazine MALTATODAY today August 2018 | Issue 104 www.vida.com.mt Waste Free Beauty RUNWAYS OF THE WORLD SUMMER TRENDS 2018 KURT SANSONE NATIONALIST Party exponents clear- ly overestimated the importance the Egrant story had for voters despite bill- ing it the "mother of all scandals", a Mal- taToday survey shows. Almost three quarters of those sur- veyed said Egrant had no bearing on how they voted in the election and only 17% believed Joseph Muscat and his wife owned the company. The repercussions of the Egrant saga appear to have been greater for the PN, especially in the wake of the inquiry findings that were released a fortnight ago. The survey recorded the highest-ever trust rating for the Prime Minister, who now stands 39 points clear of his politi- cal rival, Adrian Delia. Muscat is now trusted by 16% of those who voted PN last year, 10 points higher than the June survey. And if an election is held tomorrow, the Labour Party could be looking at a victory that gives it a margin of around 94,000 votes over the PN. But the survey found Nationalist sup- porters deeply divided on Adrian Delia's decision to ask his predecessor Simon Busuttil to suspend himself from the parliamentary group. And when given a stark choice between Delia and Busuttil on who they felt was right on the Egrant affair, the current leader came out on top with 34.2% as op- posed to 14.9% who indicated the former leader. The survey also highlighted the divide Delia has to bridge between the belief of 45% of PN supporters that corruption should remain a central plank for their party and the rest of the population that believes otherwise. The survey was held between 3 and 9 August, after the Egrant inquiry results were released. It was also a period dur- ing which Delia retracted his request for Busuttil's auto-suspension. KURT SANSONE JOSEPH Muscat's trust rating has hit an all-time high in the aftermath of the Egrant inquiry that cleared him and his wife, a MaltaToday survey found. With a trust rating of 53.9%, the Prime Minister also managed to se- cure the trust of a greater number of Nationalist voters. The shift of PN voters towards Muscat mitigated the increase in Labour voters, who said they trusted no one. Overall, Muscat registered a slight improvement on the record trust rating of November last year in the wake of Daphne Caruana Galizia's assassination. Nine months ago, Muscat's trust rating hit 53.7%.sup- porters deeply divided on Adrian Delia's decision to ask his predeces- sor Simon Busuttil to suspend him- self from the parlia- mentary group. self from the parlia- PAGE 12 mt survey The mother of all miscalculations The divided party: Adrian Delia (right) was considered to have acted correctly by asking for Simon Busuttil's (left) resignation, but this is opposed by 14.9% who felt that Busuttil was right to resist Delia's demand MALTATODAY SURVEY How the PN split and the Egrant fi asco have bumped up Muscat and Labour sky-high 2 malta SUNDAY • SUNDAY • €1.95 MARILENA GAUCI The Q&A Inside MaltaToday 2